Re: [dev] [st] problem with zsh

2009-11-15 Thread Aurélien Aptel
2009/11/16 Michał Fogelman : > > 2009/11/15 Aurélien Aptel >> >> Can I see the output of st when zsh do the visual effect you're talking >> about ? >> >> 2009/11/15 Michał Fogelman : >> > i've got problem with st and zsh - it seems to "ignore" visual effect of >> > backspace adding empty spaces at

Re: [dev] [st] problem with zsh

2009-11-15 Thread Michał Fogelman
2009/11/15 Aurélien Aptel Can I see the output of st when zsh do the visual effect you're talking > about ? > > 2009/11/15 Michał Fogelman : > > i've got problem with st and zsh - it seems to "ignore" visual effect of > > backspace adding empty spaces at the end of the line, but deleting > comman

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 15 Nov 2009 at 08:42:16 PST Anselm R Garbe wrote: Now Go became a target of those feature zealots to try their luck screwing it up with all the missing features they know from C++. At least that makes C less vulnerable since they can go play with something else. What I really dislike ab

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Uriel
Go troll someone else. uriel On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:33 PM, frederic wrote: >>> So now closures are not an issue anymore? >> >> There is nothing wrong with closures per se, hacking them up on top of >> C is what is wrong. >> > > That's basically what you replied to me in an other thread: > "I'

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread frederic
So now closures are not an issue anymore? There is nothing wrong with closures per se, hacking them up on top of C is what is wrong. That's basically what you replied to me in an other thread: "I'm pretty sure that if C featured closures, Anselm and many others would promptly and cleverly han

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-11-15 11:24] Kurt H Maier > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM, markus schnalke wrote: > > > > Can you provide a link please. > > http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/msg/1a20c3113a465959 Thanks. meillo

Re: [dev] suckless tools should be packaged for Slitaz

2009-11-15 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:13:27AM +0100, covah...@altern.org wrote: > On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Jacob Todd wrote: > > > http://sta.li > > >We need a proper server to host the git repository (expected size of the > >build environment repo is 2GB). Any mirror service is welcome; expect 100 > >clones

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM, markus schnalke wrote: > [2009-11-15 16:42] Anselm R Garbe >> By far the best >> go-nuts mail I've seen so far was ken's response to the billion dollar >> mistake yesterday. > > Can you provide a link please. http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/msg/1a20c3

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-11-15 16:42] Anselm R Garbe > > By far the best > go-nuts mail I've seen so far was ken's response to the billion dollar > mistake yesterday. Can you provide a link please. meillo

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2009/11/15 Uriel : > I don't expect Go to kill C, there will always be a place for a > portable assembler language, but Go will push C to the niche where it > works best, while C++ and Java should be completely obliterated. Now Go became a target of those feature zealots to try their luck screwing

Re: [dev] wmii can save settings on close, can't it ?

2009-11-15 Thread Aurélien Aptel
Oops. Ignore my last message.

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:50:42PM +0100, Uriel wrote: As kris said, that doesn't compare languages, but implementations, and not just implementations of the language/compilers, but implementations of the benchmark itself. Rog (of Vitanuova fame) posted an update to the Go implementation of the

Re: [dev] wmii can save settings on close, can't it ?

2009-11-15 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:38 AM, David J Patrick wrote: > because I don't relish the idea of rebuilding them every time. > djp > > What kind of settings you want to save ?

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Uriel
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:33:06PM +0100, Uriel wrote: >> >> Next you will tell me that because I said OO is evil, I must be >> against function pointers. Go has no inheritance, and that is >> basically the root of all OO evil (and inheritanc

Re: [dev] [st] problem with zsh

2009-11-15 Thread Aurélien Aptel
Can I see the output of st when zsh do the visual effect you're talking about ? 2009/11/15 Michał Fogelman : > i've got problem with st and zsh - it seems to "ignore" visual effect of > backspace adding empty spaces at the end of the line, but deleting command > in line. After changing TERM variab

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Uriel
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:24 PM, frederic wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:43:46PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: >>> >>> On 11/15/09, frederic wrote: >>> and sacrifices some efficiency to have a few higher level language >>> features (gc, interface, string, map, package, init, defer, closure..)

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:33:06PM +0100, Uriel wrote: Next you will tell me that because I said OO is evil, I must be against function pointers. Go has no inheritance, and that is basically the root of all OO evil (and inheritance is in mainstream programming considered the defining characterist

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Uriel
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Benoit T wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:29:01AM +0100, Uriel wrote: >> Go is the only hope for the future of the software industry, the only >> weapon with a chance of killing the abominable mutant monster of C++ >> and the double-headed zombie of Java/C#. > >

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Uriel
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM, frederic wrote: >> I'm quite picky, and I have yet to see anything I don't like in Go, > > So now closures are not an issue anymore? There is nothing wrong with closures per se, hacking them up on top of C is what is wrong. > And you don't see the OO > non-non-su

Re: [dev] [OT] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Anonymous
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:32:15AM +0100, Uriel wrote: > The C preprocessor has been pretty much ignored by any decent C > programmer for decades now, getting rid of it in Go is a non-issue. It was not ignored. sys/queue.h is very useful

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:54:23PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:24:41PM +0100, frederic wrote: All this is more than just nit-picking. Pike claims a 10-20% loss compared to C, which would still be quite good. However, the first benchmarks tell another story at the moment

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:24:41PM +0100, frederic wrote: Be careful what you say. None of those features necessarilly sacrifice efficiency. In fact, garbage collection can be a huge performace boon when implemented properly, in that garbage can be lazily freed in hunks and with minimal locking

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:24:41PM +0100, frederic wrote: > All this is more than just nit-picking. Pike claims a 10-20% loss > compared to C, which would still be quite good. However, the first > benchmarks tell another story at the moment: > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?tes

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread frederic
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:43:46PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: On 11/15/09, frederic wrote: and sacrifices some efficiency to have a few higher level language features (gc, interface, string, map, package, init, defer, closure..) as a bonus it has multi tasking support (go, chan, select), go

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:43:46PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: On 11/15/09, frederic wrote: and sacrifices some efficiency to have a few higher level language features (gc, interface, string, map, package, init, defer, closure..) as a bonus it has multi tasking support (go, chan, select), goo

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Benoit T
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:29:01AM +0100, Uriel wrote: > Go is the only hope for the future of the software industry, the only > weapon with a chance of killing the abominable mutant monster of C++ > and the double-headed zombie of Java/C#. hear hear! there has to be a better way :) > Having Go,

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 11/15/09, frederic wrote: > So now C isn't the perfect programming language any more? > c was not perfect but probably it's still the simplest language to program a ram machine go is safe and nice: the common mistakes of c programs can be avoided in exchange it gives less control to the progr

Re: [dev] [OT] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread pmarin
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Uriel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dmitry Maluka > wrote: > You don't need to replace something that is useless and evil, as Go > shows. Just like Plan 9 didn't "replace" root and suid (or at least > not directly). > > The C preprocessor has been p

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread pmarin
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Uriel wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:59:19PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: >>> Syntactically the language seems a bit confusing at first and >>> unfortunately too similar to C. >> >> It looks a like a

[dev] [st] problem with zsh

2009-11-15 Thread Michał Fogelman
i've got problem with st and zsh - it seems to "ignore" visual effect of backspace adding empty spaces at the end of the line, but deleting command in line. After changing TERM variable to "xterm" it works fine. Any clue what should i change in st/zsh config to make it work properly? Fogel

Re: [dev] suckless tools should be packaged for Slitaz

2009-11-15 Thread covahcat
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Jacob Todd wrote: http://sta.li We need a proper server to host the git repository (expected size of the build environment repo is 2GB). Any mirror service is welcome; expect 100 clones per month, at least (so, 200GB traffic volume in the mid term). Jacob, have you tri

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

2009-11-15 Thread frederic
I'm quite picky, and I have yet to see anything I don't like in Go, So now closures are not an issue anymore?And you don't see the OO non-non-support (sic) [from the FAQ: "is Go an OO language?" "-Yes and no"] as a problem? Beware, if you use Go's methods you might write OO-style code with